List of hackathons in Newark, United States in 2017

Musicians and engineers in and around the Big Apple! You're invited to sign up and participate in the Monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This is your opportunity to collaborate with like minded individuals to design and create a new music-related project from scratch. Over the next 8 hours, you'll be challenged to further develop your project, before you perform or present them to all participants and observers.

Think of National Merchant Day (NMD) as one big series of demonstrations and networking opportunities with some of the industry’s biggest players at the trendy Tribeca Rooftop in NYC on Thursday, February 16, 2017.  The event will showcase the latest in commerce innovation, bringing together merchants, solutions providers and consumers to recognize those who transform the shopping experience. The event will be a blend of hackathons, technology fashion shows, celebrity chef tastings and cocktails with a very open concept vibe (light agenda).   Note this free ticket offer through Eventbrite is for merchants with a brick-and-mortar or online retail store all other types of attendees please email to events@pymnts.com for more details. 

Interested in electronic music? MoMA PS1 invites you to sign up to participate in the event "Between 0 and 1: Remixing Gender, Technology and Music." The event will begin with a participatory hackathon and workshop focused on collaborative electronic music programming.

Join us for the first annual Norwalk Hackathon! We'll hear from data, oceanographic, maritime and environmental experts about Long Island Sound and how communities are interacting with this precious body of water.  This is your chance to get together, meet amazing people and do something about climate change, sea-level rise and the health of Long Island Sound, by joining teams that'll focus on data collection, analysis, sharing and visualization.   Specific challenges will fall into three ares: 1. Data science - this could be data structures, data sharing, data protection, and more 2. Data Visualization - VR and Graphics to represent the huge datasets that Long Island Sound sensors create 3. Data Collection - create sensors and water-borne transmission projects   We'll be hosting this with the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium, with all of their amazing expertise and datasets, in cooperation with other groups involved in the Oceans, Environment and Long Island Sound.

Disruption, Innovation, Revolution are all terms that are tossed around the technology world. The legal industry is ripe for change but what will be that next big innovation? Join us to hear new ideas from LegalTech innovators and thought-provoking Darwin Talks from experts. Talks range from access to justice, hackathons, hacking, measurement, to blockchain and artificial intelligence. In just five minutes, each presenter will share their ideas about where the legal profession is heading. Evolve Law members receive complimentary tables – please email us at info@evolvelawnow.com to confirm or purchase a table. Non-members welcome to participate for $150 per demo table – contact us at info@evolvelawnow.com for more details. *This event will sell out at 150 and we will have to only provide tables to members and sponsors that confirm prior to the event. Tables may have to be shared amongst Evolve Law members. Please do NOT bring a monitor – all banners and signs will be behind the tables. The idea is to demo your software and collateral should be limited. You must arrive and be completely set up 15 mins prior to the start time of the networking. There will be no setup once the event starts. Thank you! Alma Asay, Allegory – Outside Counsel vs. Corporate Counsel: Who is Driving Legal Tech Adoption? Lori Gonzalez, The RayNa Corporation – My Trip With the Techies – A Journey into a Hackathon Joshua Lenon, Clio – OCI at PWC: Why Legal Ed Should Embrace Big Four Accounting Brian Powers, PactSafe – Beyond Data Breached – How Lawyers are ‘Hacking’ Terms of Use on Websites and Mobile Apps Dean Sonderegger, Wolters Kluwer – Want to Know the Future of Law? Ask your Accountant… Linda Tvrdy – Access to Justice and Legal Tech Dan Lear, Avvo – Rock Meet Hard Place: 21st Century Legal tech Breaks 19th Century Legal Ethics Haley Altman, Doxly – Maximizing Realization Rates: Strategies Successful Law Firms Adopt To Drive Long-Term Success Bennett Collen, Cognate – Blockchain: The Future of Law Noory Bechor, LawGeex – My Other Lawyer is a Robot Jeff Bell, LegalShield – Lawyers and Citizens Can Both Win

Civic minded techies in and around Harlem! Interested in using technology for civic good in Harlem and other communities? Harlem Business Alliance invites you to participate in the #HackHarlem 2017 hackathon. You'll be challenged to work with like-minded techies to design innovative technology solutions that will help improve Harlem and the lives of its citizens.

 ***TICKETS AVAILABLE! To RSVP please visit us at HackerNest NYC **** HackerNest Tech Socials are a fun, relaxed way to connect with your local tech community. Atmosphere: chill, friendly, unpretentious, agenda-free (no sales pitch), and brimming with Ultra Smart People.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, like us on Facebook, hi-5 us in person! The typical Tech Social agenda:   - folks arrive, grab drinks, socialize   - quick announcements, thank sponsors   - back to chatting   - head home, exhilarated from great conversations!   *** HackerNest Tech Socials are Entry by Donation - any amount appreciated, but $10 is suggested. No amount is too little! If a cash donation is too restrictive, please join us anyway – just let us know at the door. *** SPONSOR: KISSPatent puts the power of patent protection into the hands of startups. Sponsors make this growing movement possible, so we treasure and build deep, long-term relationships with the companies that endorse us. We're always looking for new friends! Please email sponsor@hackernest.com. VENUE: Knotel Bryant Park We're on the lookout for easy to access offices with space that can fit our audience (standing-room only). Please email neville@hackernest.com if you’d like to host a Tech Social! About Us: HackerNest is an international nonprofit uniting local tech communities through unpretentious Tech Socials and hackathons. We cram lots of smart, accomplished people into a room and get them talking to one another. Our relaxed, down-to-earth events attract a diverse and highly technical membership. Strict 'no-scuzzbag' policy.

Developers, business people, designers, ports logistics people, lawyers participated in the NYC Port & Logistics Hackathon. Their challenge was to bring ideas for disruptive innovation to the world of ports and logistics. Rainmaking Innovation invites you to come and hear the participating teams present their projects. The winning team will receive a cash prize of $5,000.

Musicians, composers, computer programmers, hackers in and around the Big Apple! Come and participate in a Music Composition Hackathon. Collaborate with like minded individuals and compose music from scratch and perform your composition before a jury of your peers.

Developers, business people, designers, ports logistics people, lawyers, etc.! Rainmaking Innovation invites you to come and participate in the NYC Port & Logistics Hackathon. Bring your creativity and skills to bring ideas for disruptive innovation to the world of ports and logistics. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to invent new business models, validate market opportunities and build solution prototypes.